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 On the 7th of February, Mia Skadhauge Stevn, was reported missing. Mia was a hard-working nurse student. She was described as a friendly, woman who wanted people to do good in life. In February 2022, she was having a night out with friends on the weekend, when everything took a turn for the worse. 38-year-old Thomas Thomsen sentenced to custody for murder, attempted rape and dismemberment.

Nancy Griffith was Born May 16, 1934. she passed away on September 23, 2013.  Nancy, a world-class sailor and coffee farmer, died in New York. Sailor Nancy Griffith will be remembered for her adventures, laughter, and unique stories. 

Carla Mai was born September 5, 1989, in Chigwell, Essex, England, UK. British reality TV performer Carla Mai (AKA Aimee Spencer) died in a Brighton hospital last Monday. She had been in a coma for a week before her death. Mai died from injuries she sustained following her fall from a 1st-floor window in her apartment. The fall is considered suspicious and not accidental by police. A man was arrested by police for attempted murder for allegedly pushing Mai out of a window in the apartment. A woman has been arrested for possession with intent to supply a Class A drug in connection to Mai's death. Both the man and the woman are out on bail and are scheduled to appear in court to address the charges in early September. Died on July 18, 2016 (age 26) in Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK. last updated November 2022

Mia Goth (Gypsy Mello da Silva Goth) was born in London, UK, on October 25, 1993. She is an English actress, fashion model, and screenwriter. She began her modeling career as a teenager and made her film debut in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac. She has subsequently cast in the thriller The Survivalist and the psychological horror film A Cure for Wellness. last updated November 2022

Brittany Murphy biography Brittany Murphy (Brittany Anne Murphy) was born November 10, 1977, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA; she was an American actress and musician. Brittany Murphy's Career When she was nine years old, she got a singing role in the musical Les Misérables, and by the time Brittany was thirteen, she had a contract with a manager. Murphy got her first job in Hollywood when she was fourteen years old, playing the role of "Brenda Drexell" in the TV series Drexell's Class. She later got the "Molly Morgan" part in the short-lived series Almost Home. She was also a vocalist in the band Blessed With Soul in the early 1990s. Since then, she has starred in several successful films, including Clueless (1995), 8 Mile (2002), and Uptown Girls (2003). She has also appeared in several series, including Sister, Sister, Boy Meets World, and as the voice of "Luanne Platter" in the popular animated television series King of the Hill. Her most recent roles...

Jenna Kanell biography Jenna Kanell was born on November 12, 1991 in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. Jenna Kanell is an American actress, director, writer, and stunt performer. She gained recognition for her portrayals of Tara Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Kim Hansen in The Bye Bye Man (2017) - both horror movies. Her film career has since expanded to a variety of genres such as the political drama The Front Runner (2018) and the horror-comedy Renfield (2023).

Samantha Scaffidi biography Samantha Scaffidi is an American actress. She began her career in short films before becoming known for her role as Victoria Heyes in Terrifier (2016) and Terrifier 2 (2022), and Luce in Demon Hole (2017) - all three horror movies. In addition to acting, Scaffidi is known for directing the RAINN public service announcement Wait.

Lauren Bacall biography Lauren Bacall, 1924-2014, American actress. Lauren Bacall made her debut in Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not (1944). In the first film, she established her star image of sensual ambiguity and sharp rapping in her interaction with Humphrey Bogart . They married in 1945 and since then recorded several films together, including the film noir films The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). Lauren Bacall then played theater and television roles but also appeared in films such as Douglas Sirk's melodrama Written on the Wind (1956), Sidney Lumet's crime film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), and Stephen King's film adaptation Misery (1990 ). She published 1979 the autobiography Lauren Bacall, By Myself. In her older years, Lauren Bacall can be seen in several significant supporting roles, for example, in Lars von Trier's Dogville (2003) and Manderlay (2005). last updated October 2022

Laurence Fishburne biography Laurence Fishburne (Laurence J. Fishburne III) was born on July 30, 1961, in Augusta, Georgia, USA. He moved with his mother to New York after his parents divorced. With a background in the theater, he already got to play in a soap opera in 1973. It led to a role as a very young soldier in Francis Ford Coppola's great Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now (1979), several appearances in television series, and further participation in Francis Ford Coppola's Rumble Fish (1983) and Cotton Club (1984) as well as Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985) based on Alice Walker's novel. In the following years, Laurence Fishburne played a host of roles, both major and minor, on television and in film, while continuing to appear in the theatre before making a significant breakthrough in John Singleton's (1968-2019) ghetto portrayal of Boyz n the Hood (1991). It was set aside for substantial roles in, among other things, The Tina Turner portrait What...

Kirk Douglas biography Kirk Douglas (Issur Danielovich Demsky) was born on December 9, 1916. He was an American actor and the father of Michael Douglas. Kirk Douglas had a long career in Hollywood with his edgy and aggressive acting style, for example, in the boxer film Champion (1949), westerns such as Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1956), and the war film Paths of Glory (1957). Among his more nuanced portraits can be mentioned the title role in Lust for Life (1956), The film about Vincent van Gogh. As a producer, Kirk Douglas was behind his own star role in Spartacus (1960). Died on February 5, 2020 (aged 103) last updated October 2022

Katharine Hepburn biography Katharine Hepburn, on May 12, 1907, American actress with one of the longest leading role careers in film history. Katharine Hepburn's specialty was strong and eccentric personalities, especially in comedies opposite her partner Spencer Tracy, e.g., Woman of the Year (1942) and Adam's Rib (1949), and Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among her more severe character roles, Sudden Last Summer (1959) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) must be highlighted. She was also very successful in The African Queen (1951), and the nostalgic chamber play Love Among the Ruins (1975), which was shaped as a tribute to Katharine Hepburn then and now. She is the only actress to have been awarded an Oscar four times, which she got for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and On Golden Pond (1981). Katharine Hepburn also played regularly at the theater from 1928 and, in ...

Neil Jordan biography Neil Jordan is an Irish film director and screenwriter. Jordan had his breakthrough in 1986 with the drama Mona Lisa, set in London's underworld. The film brought Jordan to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits (1988) and the comedy We're No Angels (1989), although without much success. In 1992 he returned to Europe and filmed his own short story, The Crying Game, a very well-constructed and complex love story set against the backdrop of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Jordan has since shown his versatility with Interview With the Vampire (1994) based on Anne Rice's (b. 1941) novel, the large-scale Michael Collins (1996) about the tumultuous political events of 1920s Ireland, the gangster film The Good Thief (2002), a remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur (1955) and the tragicomic portrayal of a young transvestite in the 1960s and 1970s in Breakfast on Pluto (2005). last updated October 2022

Kim Novak biography Kim Novak (Marilyn Pauline Novak) was born in 1933 as an American actress. Novak was launched as a blonde, erotic star in Pushover (1954) and showed character talent, among other things. The Man With the Golden Arm (1955). She gave her most significant performance in Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Among her, later roles are the melodrama Liebestraum (1991). last updated October 2022

Karl Malden biography Karl Malden (Mladen Sekulovich) was born March 22, 1914, American actor. Malden had his film breakthrough in Elia Kazan 's A Streetcar Named Desire (1951); since then, he made his mark in significant supporting roles, for example, in On the Waterfront (1954), One-Eyed Jacks (1961), The Cincinnati Kid (1965) and Patton (1970). Malden directed Time Limit (1957) and starred in the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972-77). Died on July 1, 2009. last updated October 2022

Judy Garland biography Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) was born June 10, 1922, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA; she was an American actress, singer, and entertainer, mother of Liza Minnelli. Judy Garland was a child star in the 1930s, peaking in the musical The Wizard of Oz (1939), where she launched her signature song "Over the Rainbow." As an adult, Garland starred in the musical classics Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and Easter Parade (1948). After some years of personal and health problems, she made a big comeback in A Star Is Born (1954) and showed character talent in a completely different role as a Nazi victim in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). In the 1960s, Judy Garland split her career between concerts and television shows; she gave a concert in Copenhagen a few months before her death. Died on June 22, 1969, in Cadogan Lane, London, UK (drug overdose). last updated October 2022

Josh Brolin biography Josh Brolin (Josh J. Brolin) was born February 12,1968 and is an American actor. Josh Brolin is the son of seasoned Hollywood actor James Brolin (b. July 18, 1940) and made his film debut in 1985. After minor roles in both TV series and films, he was more centrally placed in, among other things, Paul Verhoeven's Hollow Man (2000) and had a significant breakthrough in the Coen brothers' laconic crime and fate tale No Country for Old Men (2007). It opened up roles in, among other things, Ridley Scott's American Gangster (2007) and the following year in both Gus Van Sant's Milk and, not least, the all-dominant lead role as George W. Bush in Oliver Stone's presidential portrait W. Josh Brolin has since, usually with masculine emphasis, i.a., noted in the same director's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010), Woody Allen 's You'll Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) and the Coen brothers' western True Grit (2011). last updated October ...

John Wayne biography John Wayne (Marion Michael Morrison) was born on May 26, 1907. He was an American film actor and Oscar winner. He was an institution in American cinema as the classic hero of war films, especially westerns. He personified individualism and a pioneering spirit and was an exponent of conservative American ideals on and off the screen. After a series of b-movie roles, he got his breakthrough in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939). John Wayne's talent, which mainly rested on a rare laid-back and authoritative radiance, was also seen in more complex western roles, for example, in John Ford's She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). He also had a fruitful collaboration with Howard Hawks in Red River (1948), Rio Bravo (1959), and Hatari! (1962). He won his only Oscar in 1970 for the role of the choleric sheriff in Henry Hathaway's True Grit (1969). Besides his regular genre roles, John Wayne succeeded in ...

John Turturro biography John Turturro (John Michael Turturro) was born on February 28, 1957. John Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, and educated at the State University of New York and Yale University in drama. He entered the film industry in 1980 and simultaneously built a distinguished theater career Off-Broadway. From the mid-1980s, John Turturro gradually got more significant and prominent roles in films, e.g., in Spike Lee 's Do the Right Thing (1989), which used his Italian ancestry. Spike Lee has continued to use him in all his films, and with Miller's Crossing (1990), John Turturro became one of the Coen brothers' favorite actors, not least in a central role in Barton Fink (1991). With his lanky figure and often nervous characters, John Turturro has also had wide-ranging roles in, e.g., Robert Redford 's Quiz Show (1994), Tim Robbins ' Cradle Will Rock (1999), Nicolas Winding Refn's gripping thriller Fear X (2003) and the comedy Anger Management (...

John Belushi biography John Belushi was born January 24, 1949, in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Belushi was a comedian with cult status and a crazy sense of humor that was honed on the television show Saturday Night Live 1975-79 and carried over to films such as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and The Blues Brothers (1980). Died on march 5, 1982, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, Californien, USA. last updated October 2022

John Barrymore biography John Barrymore, 1882-1942, American actor. John Barrymore, like his sister Ethel and brother Lionel, was the third generation in the theater world. He made his stage debut in 1903 and his film in 1914. In the theater, he alternated between comedy roles and the classical repertoire, with highlights in John Galsworthy's Justice (1915) as well as Shakespeare's Richard III (1920) and Hamlet (1922). On film, he played complex character roles such as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), seductive lover roles such as Don Juan (1926), and elegant living men on de route in, for example, Grand Hotel (1932) and Dinner at Eight (1933). A hectic personal life and alcohol problems turned Barrymore into a parody of himself in recent years, but he enjoyed international recognition in his heyday. His son John Barrymore Jr. (1932-2004), and his daughter Drew Barrymore (b. 1975), are also film actors. last updated October 2022